The Lost Century

The Lost Century
Larissa Lai
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Paperback
h152 x 204mm - 374pg
16 Feb 2023 CAN
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9781551528977
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Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism, and queer experience during Japan' s occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. On the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II and the disappearance of her uncle Theo. From Violet, she learns the story of her grandmother, Emily. Emily' s marriage - three times - to her father' s mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families, as well as among the young cricketers at the Hong Kong Cricket Club, who' ve just witnessed King Edward VIII' s abdication to marry Wallis Simpson. But the class and race pettiness of the scandal around Emily' s marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army' s invasion of Hong Kong on Christmas Day, 1941, which plunges the colony into a landscape of v
Larissa Lai is the author of The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, and Iron Goddess of Mercy. Recipient of Lambda Literary' s Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Astraea Award, Larissa holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary where she directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781551528977
Published: 16 Feb 2023
Published In: Canada
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 152mm
Width: 204mm
Pages: 374

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